Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0af1fd6d31944e02…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-10-07 15:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 4f7990072146587592edcf7f8b1577e9 SHA-1: 7ec19f8e032f963f3835cf698c6f4d88d55498f2 SHA-256: 0af1fd6d31944e02362b7b9c44e805b827d099350781c3653f776dc7b655ebd9
184 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to disposable hosting or redirector services. The primary redirector URL identified is https://ggtraff.ru/pify?keyword=ragnarok+assassin+cross+leveling+guide, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to URLs and appears to be part of a link farm strategy. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself facilitates the malicious redirection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ggtraff.ru/pify?keyword=ragnarok+assassin+cross+leveling+guide In PDF document text
    • https://site-1038998.mozfiles.com/files/1038998/3859737389.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1038867.mozfiles.com/files/1038867/tetipupadowu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1039634.mozfiles.com/files/1039634/65063171674.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://site-1036807.mozfiles.com/files/1036807/1068970198.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.liquidquarry.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682697/mopazegizer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.waynecdmi.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607407/josofopibejaju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.julijanahajdinjak.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/3494260.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/fba63f1a-cb84-4c7c-aa5d-07a1523b2fd8/tifagiputefutibisemeragag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/da17e5d9-5a9d-45ea-98f2-de36f06f2258/13037097876.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1a8edc16-34f5-44fb-91fe-f73cbd9b0f0d/laxafikela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/88b7c020-5778-452e-82a6-6d77804b8ed6/1122746562.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9aaebba5-ecfb-4d1b-afac-0ece493aac28/9330550455.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/00e0c02c-95ea-47cb-ac1d-e562bced4204/25469419947.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8571455b-1488-407b-b735-e48c61ac5fed/fevoje.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b115ed02-a4e2-4630-a16c-a4efd46598bb/masenisokedurip.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006998.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6998 5040 bytes
SHA-256: dd4d20a92a4755a27a1b6a6acab843659ea2e97b3753bce52c9712e074d5a936
font_01_sfnt_off00007acc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ACC 10380 bytes
SHA-256: 7a99b524c90e7bdc7d763ed7a298e63242f29d98eeea40c0aec0736d72eaa68f
font_02_sfnt_off00009e50.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E50 4324 bytes
SHA-256: d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378